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Mia Saheb Maidan Khanqah Sharif to observe Fateha-e-Yazdaham

Mia Saheb Maidan Khanqah Sharif to observe Fateha-e-Yazdaham

-- 2019-12-07 17:59:52

The annual Urs marking the  Holy 880th Fateha-e-Yazdaham  (death anniversary) of Bara Pir Hazrat Gawsul Azam Shaikh Syed Abdul Kader Zilani (RA)  will be observed on the premises Of Mia...

Automating segregation: Disintermediating economic interactions

Automating segregation: Disintermediating economic interactions

Nicholas Agar in Wellrington, New Zealand   2019-12-03 20:41:05

There are many legitimate complaints about work in the "gig economy." But, in time, many of the gigs will be automated, eliminating a significant source of work for immigrants and the less educated. A...

Internet-famous cat Lil Bub dies

Internet-famous cat Lil Bub dies

-- 2019-12-03 13:15:24

Lil Bub, one of the internet's most famous cats, has died aged eight. The cat's owner, Mike Bridavsky, announced her death to millions of followers on social media on Monday. Lil Bub was best known...

Amazon pulls Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments

Amazon pulls Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments

-- 2019-12-02 12:00:32

Amazon has withdrawn a range of "Christmas ornaments" displaying images of a former concentration camp that sellers had posted on its website. The move followed a tweet from Poland's Auschwitz Memori...

Paris auction offers chance to step into Napoleon's shoes

Paris auction offers chance to step into Napoleon's shoes

Reuters 2019-11-29 13:01:50

A pair of boots thought to belong to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is expected to fetch up to 80,000 euros ($88,176) at a sale in Paris’ Drouot auctioneers on Friday. Auctioneers said they...

Indian doctors remove 7.4kg kidney from patient

Indian doctors remove 7.4kg kidney from patient

-- 2019-11-26 11:29:23

Indian doctors have removed a kidney weighing 7.4kg (16.3lbs) - as much as two newborn babies - from a patient. It's believed to be the largest kidney ever removed in India - a kidney usually weighs...

Couple get married on flight

Couple get married on flight

-- 2019-11-23 12:58:10

A couple got married on a plane 37,000 feet in the air— eight years after meeting while playing an online game about airports. Aviation enthusiasts David and Cathy Valliant said, "I do" 37,000...

"Climate emergency" becomes word of year for 2019: Oxford Dictionaries

"Climate emergency" becomes word of year for 2019: Oxford Dictionaries

Xinhua 2019-11-22 17:23:39

Oxford Dictionaries, part of Oxford University Press, has declared "climate emergency" the word of the year for 2019. According to Oxford Corpus, a database containing hundreds of millions of words o...

Hitler's birthplace to become local police headquarters

Hitler's birthplace to become local police headquarters

Xinhua 2019-11-20 17:08:04

The birthplace of Adolf Hitler in Austria will be used by the police, Austria's interior ministry said on Tuesday, putting an end to discussions about the proper use of the building. "The future use...

Number of captive pandas increases to 600 globally

Number of captive pandas increases to 600 globally

-- 2019-11-13 14:33:24

A total of 60 captive panda cubs were born, 57 of which survived this year, leading to a captive panda population of 600 worldwide, China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration said Tuesday....

A new children’s book on Prophet (S)

A new children’s book on Prophet (S)

FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-11-10 14:07:28

A book titled ‘Rasulullah Sallallhu Aalihi Wassllam-er Shikkha O Adhunik Biggan’ (Teaching of Rasulullah Sallallhu Aalihi Wassllam and Modern Science) has been published. Written by journ...

South Africa goes wild for KFC marriage proposal

South Africa goes wild for KFC marriage proposal

-- 2019-11-09 12:05:43

South Africans have been offering to help a couple have the wedding of their dreams after a video of the proposal at a KFC restaurant went viral on social media. The video shows a man kneeling and pr...

South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons

South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons

-- 2019-11-06 13:26:56

A South Korean service is offering free funerals - but only to the living. More than 25,000 people have participated in mass “living funeral” services at Hyowon Healing Center since it op...

Woman ‘kills husband’ for talking on phone at night

Woman ‘kills husband’ for talking on phone at night

-- 2019-11-04 14:40:49

An Indian man took a call in the middle of the night and that angered his wife so much that she allegedly murdered him. The incident occurred in the couple’s home in Bihar on October 27, accord...

Man arrested in case filed by ‘60th wife’

Man arrested in case filed by ‘60th wife’

-- 2019-11-04 14:20:42

A 45-year-old man, who claimed to have married 60 women using fake names and identities, was finally arrested from his original home at Sovarchar village in Jamalpur district in a case filed by his la...

Musician reunited with £250,000 violin

Musician reunited with £250,000 violin

-- 2019-11-03 13:24:09

A 310-year-old violin worth £250,000 that was left on a train in south London has been returned to its owner. The instrument was handed over to professional musician Stephen Morris in a superma...

400kg drugs found in hot sauce bottles

400kg drugs found in hot sauce bottles

-- 2019-10-31 15:25:17

Four men have been arrested after Australian police found 400kg (882lb) of crystal methamphetamine hidden inside imported hot sauce bottles. Authorities searched a consignment of sriracha chilli sauc...

Indian woman runs away from ‘eggless’ marriage

Indian woman runs away from ‘eggless’ marriage

-- 2019-10-28 14:12:12

In a bizarre incident, a woman ran away from an 'eggless' marriage, after she was allegedly being denied eggs by her husband in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur district in India. According to the police, t...

$1.84m diamond stolen from Japan jewelry fair

$1.84m diamond stolen from Japan jewelry fair

-- 2019-10-27 12:51:56

Japanese police are investigating a 200 million yen ($1.84 million) diamond allegedly stolen from an international jewelry trade show near Tokyo. The 50-carat diamond was last seen sitting inside a g...

‘Panda’ cafe in China raising eyebrows

‘Panda’ cafe in China raising eyebrows

-- 2019-10-23 11:20:45

Animal cafes have been springing up all over the world for the last two decades as a place for animal lovers to enjoy a meal alongside their furry friends. But a new ‘panda’ cafe in Cheng...

Sheep with famously overgrown fleece dies in Australia

Sheep with famously overgrown fleece dies in Australia

-- 2019-10-22 12:54:06

Chris the sheep, a merino famed for once being discovered with the world's heaviest fleece, has died in Australia. The animal generated global attention in 2015 after being spotted in the wild carryi...

Egypt unveils biggest ancient coffin find in over a century

Egypt unveils biggest ancient coffin find in over a century

-- 2019-10-20 11:02:02

Egypt on Saturday unveiled the details of 30 ancient wooden coffins with mummies inside discovered in the southern city of Luxor in the biggest find of its kind in more than a century. A team of Egyp...

California launches statewide earthquake warning app

California launches statewide earthquake warning app

Xinhua 2019-10-18 15:33:30

California unveiled the first statewide quake warning system in the United States on Thursday (local time), the state governor's office said. Ground motion sensors from across the state will be used...

Atwood and Evaristo jointly win Booker Prize 2019

Atwood and Evaristo jointly win Booker Prize 2019

Reuters 2019-10-15 12:15:29

Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” jointly won the Booker Prize on Monday in a surprise double award in which the lit...

12th death anniv of Obaidul Huq observed

12th death anniv of Obaidul Huq observed

FE Online Desk 2019-10-14 13:26:25

The 12th death anniversary of veteran journalist Obaidul Huq was observed on Sunday. Obaidul Huq, a doyen of journalism, breathed his last on October 13, 2007 at his Banani residence. He was about 97...

California becomes first US state to ban animal fur products

California becomes first US state to ban animal fur products

-- 2019-10-13 12:09:41

California has become the first US state to ban the manufacture and sale of animal fur. Residents will no longer be able to sell or make clothing, shoes, or handbags from fur as of 2023. The move ha...

100-million-year-old dinosaur footprints found

100-million-year-old dinosaur footprints found

Xinhua 2019-10-08 15:35:21

Paleontologists announced Tuesday in Beijing they had discovered a group of 100-million-year-old fossils of dinosaur footprints in east China's Zhejiang Province. Over 20 footprints, ranging from 22....

Iranian Instagram star ‘arrested for blasphemy’

Iranian Instagram star ‘arrested for blasphemy’

-- 2019-10-07 12:33:57

An Iranian Instagram star famed for posts which appeared to show she had gone to extreme lengths to look like US actress Angelina Jolie has been arrested, reports say. Sahar Tabar was arrested for cr...

Six elephants die trying to save each other

Six elephants die trying to save each other

-- 2019-10-06 11:57:20

Six elephants have fallen to their deaths in Thailand while trying to save each other from a notorious waterfall. Officials said the incident occurred after a baby elephant slipped over the waterfall...

Gandhi's ashes stolen, photo defaced on 150th birthday

Gandhi's ashes stolen, photo defaced on 150th birthday

-- 2019-10-04 11:57:43

Thieves stole some of Mahatma Gandhi's remains on what would have been his 150th birthday, police said on Thursday. The ashes were taken from a memorial in central India on Wednesday, where they ha...